Apple wireless keyboard/iPad64G

Have you 'unpaired' the keyboard from your iMac? Unpairing from my iPod Touch worked with my Motorla s9 headset, which had the same symptoms that you are having 🙂 - IM

I'm having this exact issue as well.

Looked around to see if there were any firmware updates to the original Apple Wireless keyboard, but found nothing.

Indeed, I have unpaired the kbd from the previous device, and can even re-pair to another iMac - just the iPad that won't pair with it.

I'll see if I can get an answer through my enterprise apple support agreement, and if so, I'll post back here.

Is this the white keyboard rather than the lowline metallic one? There have been reports that the white keyboard doesn't work with the iPad.

Exactly the same problem here..be interesting if a solution is found.

I had same problem. In small instruction manual that came with wirelesskeyboard it notes you will need to turn off bluetooth on your computer to use with something else. Once turned off you can then pair it withthe ipad. I preferthe touch screen keyboard

The problem is that for some reason with older (model A1016) Apple keyboards the iPad is not coming up with the screen to provide the pairing code to enter on the keyboard. To see what I mean;

First on the iPad turn on bluetooth then cycle the power to the keyboard so that it is discoverable. When it shows up in the list as Apple Wireless Keyboard, click on it to attempt to pair.

It will just sit there forever.... now watch the iPad screen carefully and hit the enter button on the keyboard. You will see a message box pop up that tells you the pairing code that it had expected you to type in.... even though it never poped up. It goes away too fast and you just get an error.

When I hooked up the iPad to Xcode and watched the console information:

Tue Apr 27 10:56:37 XXXX Preferences[3982] <Warning>: BTM: setting pincode 588825 for device 0x17a0b0 Apple Wireless Keyboard 00:0A:95:xx:xx:xx 0xf72b0005


I thought I would be slick and be able to see the debug of the pin in the console BEFORE it errors out. However it only shows the pin AFTER you have already clicked enter and then its too late since it uses a new random pin every time.